Abstract
Every day on my way to work, I am confronted by the sight of an enormous construction project—the Playa Vista development—rising before my eyes. It sits about two miles from the Pacific Ocean atop what was once a beautiful and wild place, the Ballona Wetlands. There is a chronic need for housing in southern California and this development aims to address at least some of that need. At what cost, however? The intricate web of wetlands that used to run up and down the California coast has all but disappeared. The egrets and herons and terns and kites and other birds that thrived in the brackish waters of the Ballona Wetlands retain a precarious foothold in the tiny portion of the wetlands that remains. But their habitat has been reduced to a poor and thin remnant of what it once was. Their future in this place is uncertain.
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